Sr. Supplier Development Engineer

One sentence description of role
Your role:

• Facilitates technical capability assessments of potential new suppliers, ensuring they meet the company's quality standards, and contributes to the supplier selection.
• Conducts & reviews DFMAT (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Technique), SAF (Supplier Approval Form), MSA (Measurement System Analysis), PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), Control Plan, SPC (Statistical Process Control), PV&V (Process Validation and Verification), FAI (First Article Inspection), LRA (Logistics Risk Assessment), and SICR (Supplier Initiated Change Request).
• Develops, executes, monitors, and controls APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) plans as part of the NPI process to ensure consistent product quality.
• Contributes to the content of the Supplier Project Book, documenting detailed quality requirements and expectations for suppliers.
• Facilitates collaboration between R&D and suppliers in Design for Excellence (DfX) initiatives to enhance product design quality and innovation.
• Focuses that Critical to Quality (CtQ) characteristics are effectively communicated to suppliers and rigorously maintained throughout the production process.
• Coordinates Part Submission Warrant plans, deliverables, line releases, and completion, ensuring all parts meet specified quality standards before approval.
• Executes supplier improvement and development initiatives on APQP(Advanced Product Quality Planning), providing guidance and resources to enhance supplier processes, ensuring they meet the high standards required for production quality and efficiency.
• Assists with the process of making additions, changes, or deletions to the Approved Supplier List, ensuring that only qualified suppliers are retained.
• Suppports in end to end performance management of suppliers, conducts detailed analysis of defects to determine if they are supplier-caused, and acts as an independent reviewer for Supplier Corrective Action Requests.
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• You're the right fit if: (4 x bullets max)
  1. Experience-Minimum of 10 years of related engineering experience (medical device or regulated industry preferred and commodities like Sheetmetal and Plastic).
  2. Skills-
• Supplier Quality Management
• Quality Management Procedures and Methodologies
• Supplier Evaluation Methodologies
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• DfX Methodology
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Quality Specifications
• CAPA Methodologies
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)

• Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)

• Process Validation and Verification (PV&V)

• First Article Inspections

• Documentation & Reporting

• Regulatory Requirements

• Continuous Improvement

  3. Education. Any Engineering (Preferred Mechanical Engineering)
  4. Anything else-
• DFSS Black Belt, LEAN Six Sigma or equivalent.
• Domain - Medical device or regulated industry preferred. Leadership experience to manage stakeholders.
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• How we work together
  We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.Onsite roles require full-time presence in the companyu2019s facilities.Field roles are most effectively done outside of the companyu2019s main facilities, generally at the customersu2019 or suppliersu2019 locations.Indicate if this role is an office/field/onsite role.About Philips
  We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.u2022 Learn more about .u2022 Discover .u2022 Learn more about .If youu2019re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care .